Northfield Middle/High School

Northfield Middle/High School is a low-enrollment senior high in Northfield, Vermont, overseen by Paine Mountain Union School District #68. The school hosts 254 students in grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Vermont's public schools average about 475 students each, so Northfield Middle/High School sits 47% smaller than that benchmark.

Paine Mountain Union School District #68 runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,009 students. Northfield Middle/High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Northfield Middle/High School reports that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 45% of students at Northfield Middle/High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate median household income runs about $83,449, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Northfield Middle/High School is one of 26 public schools in Washington County (combined enrollment of about 7,465 students).

Nearest neighbor: Northfield Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

On this page, members of the Northfield Middle/High School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.